Topic 16: Soviet Union & Post-USSR (1924-2000)

Helpful Resources

• Primary Sources

  • Primary - a collection of Primary sources from the Exhibition Revelations from the Russian Archives

  • Primary - Lenin ¨Last Testament: Letters to the Congress¨ 1922 in Lenin Collected Works, Volume 36 (p. 593-611)

  • Primary - Stalin ¨History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Short Course¨ (New York: International Publishers, 1939)

  • Primary - C. J. Storella, C. J. Storella. The Voice of the People: Letters from the Soviet Village, 1918-1932, Yale University Press, 2013

  • Primary - Lewis Siegelbaum et al., Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents (Annals of Communism Series), yale University Press, 2000

  • Primary - Applebaum, Anne & Miller, Jane Ann. Gulag Voices: An Anthology, Yale University Press, 2012 

  • Primary - Collectivization videos

  • Primary -  Kiselev (Regional health inspector—doctor) Translation of Collectivization of livestock, 1932

  • Primary - "On the Path to a Great Emancipation," published in Pravda on International Women's Day, March 8, 1929

  • Primary - Various Propaganda Posters Portraying the Changing Role of Women

  • Primary - Bertaux, Daniel, Rotkirch, Anna, and Thompson, Paul, eds. On Living Through Soviet Russia. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.

  • Primary - Gregory, Paul, & Naimark, Norman, The Lost Politburo Transcripts: From Collective Rule to Stalin's Dictatorship, Yale University Press, 2008

  • Primary - Molotov, V. M., and Chuev, Feliz. Molotov Remembers : Inside Kremlin Politics. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. 

  • Primary - Bauer, Yehuda. Soviet Culture and Power : A History in Documents, 1917-1953. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

  • Primary - Richard Bidlack, Nikita Lomagin. The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives, Yale University Press, 2012

  • Primary - Portnoy, Samuel, Letter of an Old Bolshevik: A Key to the Moscow Trials, 1937

  • Primary - Wade, Rex, Documents of Soviet History: Lenin's heirs, 1923-1925, Academic International Press

  • Primary - Wade, Rex, Documents of Soviet History: Revolution from above, 1929-1931, Academic International Press

• Secondary Sources - Maintenance & Consolidation

  • Alexopoulos, Golfo, Julie Hessler, Kiril Tomoff (eds.), Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography, Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011

  • Allen, Barbara, Aleksandr Shliapnikov's Purge from the Soviet Communist Party in 1933, Cahiers du monde russe, 49/4, 2008, 559-580.

  • Berkhoff, Karel C.. Motherland in Danger : Soviet Propaganda During World War II. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

  • Bianco, Lucien, Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, Chinese University Press, 2018

  • Brandenberger, D. L., and A. M. Dubrovsky. "'The People Need a Tsar': The Emergence of National Bolshevism as Stalinist Ideology, 1931-1941." Europe-Asia Studies 50, no. 5 (1998): 873-92. 

  • Conquest, Robert. The Harvest of Sorrow : Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-famine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986

  • Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror: A Reassessment. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017

  • Davies, Sarah, Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941, Cambridge University Press, Year: 1997

  • Davies, Sarah Rosemary., and James R. Harris. Stalin : a New History / Edited by Sarah Davies and James Harris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

  • Gatrell, Peter, and Mark Harrison. "The Russian and Soviet Economies in Two World Wars: A Comparative View." The Economic History Review, New Series, 46, no. 3 (1993): 425-52. 

  • Gorlizki, Yoram, Oleg Khlevniuk, Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953. Oxford University Press, 2004

  • Haslam, Jonathan. "Political Opposition to Stalin and the Origins of the Terror in Russia, 1932-1936." The Historical Journal 29, no. 2 (1986): 395-418. 

  • Hoffmann, David L. The Stalinist Era Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

  • Kenez, Peter, A History of the Soviet Union from the beginning to the End, Cambridge University Press, 2006

  • Khlevniuk, Oleg, ¨Master of the House: Stalin and his Inner Circle Yale University Press, 2009

  • Khlevniuk, Oleg & Favorov, Nora Seligman Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator Yale University Press, 2015

  • Kotkin, Stephen, Stalin. Volume 1, Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928, Penguin Press, 2014

  • Kotkin, Stephen, Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941, Penguin Press, 2017

  • Kuromiya, Hiroaki. Stalin. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.

  • Kuromiya, Hiroaki, Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy Over China, 1894-1945, Routledge, 2023

  • Lee, Stephen J. ¨Chapter 6 The Soviet Union at War; Chapter 7 Stalin´s Post-war Regime¨ in Stalin and the Soviet Union London : Routledge, 1999.

  • Lenoe, Matthew "Did Stalin Kill Kirov and Does It Matter?" The Journal of Modern History 74, no. 2 (2002): 352-80. 

  • Lenoe, Matthew. The Kirov Murder and Soviet History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 

  • Lewin, Moshe. Lenin’s Last Struggle; Translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

  • Millar, James R. "Financing the Soviet Effort in World War II." Soviet Studies 32, no. 1 (1980): 106-23. 

  • Naimark, Norman, Stalin's Genocides, Princeton University Press, 2010

  • Overy, Richard, Russia's War, Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998.

  • Pauley, Bruce F.. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini : Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century. Newark: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.

  • Pleshakov, Constantine,, Stalin’s Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of WWII on the Eastern Front, Mariner Books, 2006

  • Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin's Wars : From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

  • Thurston, Robert, Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941, Yale University Press, 1996

  • Tucker, Robert C. "The Rise of Stalin's Personality Cult." The American Historical Review 84, no. 2 (1979): 347-66

  • Tucker, Robert C. “On the ‘Letter of an Old Bolshevik’ as an Historical Document.” Slavic Review 51, no. 4 (1992): 782–85.

  • Viola, Lynne. "Bab'i Bunty and Peasant Women's Protest during Collectivization." The Russian Review 45, no. 1 (1986): 23-42.

  • Viola, Lynne, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999

  • Viola, Lynne, et al., The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930: The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside, Yale University Press, 2005

  • Viola, Lynne, & Junge, Marc-Stephan, Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine, Oxford University Press, 2022

  • Wheatcroft, StephenG. “Agency and Terror: Evdokimov and Mass Killing in Stalin’s Great Terror.” The Australian journal of politics and history 53, no. 1 (2007): 20–43.

  • Zubok, Vladislav &Pleshakov, Constantine. Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev, Harvard University Press,1996

• Secondary Sources - Domestic Policies

  • Belodubrovskaya, Maria. Not According to Plan : Filmmaking under Stalin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017

  • Berkhoff, Karel C.. Motherland in Danger : Soviet Propaganda During World War II. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

  • Bonnell, Victoria, Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997,

  • Boterbloem, Kees. Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.

  • Brooks, Jeffery, Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War, Princeton University Press, 2001

  • Bucher, Greta. "Struggling to Survive: Soviet Women in the Postwar Years." Journal of Women's History 12, no. 1 (2000): 137-159.

  • Carr, Richard, and Hart, Bradley W.. The Global 1920s : Politics, Economics and Society. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2016

  • Chulos, Chris J.; Piirainen, Timo, eds. The Fall of an Empire, the Birth of a Nation. Helsinki: Ashgate, 2000

  • Chumachenko, Tatiana & Roslof, Edward E. Church and State in Soviet Russia : Russian Orthodoxy from World War II to the Khrushchev Years. Armonk: Taylor & Francis Group, 2002.

  • Clements, Barbara Evans, Bolshevik Feminist: The Life of Aleksandra Kollantai, Indiana University Press, 1979

  • Dale, Robert, “Divided We Stand: Cities, Social Unity and Post–War Reconstruction in Soviet Russia, 1945–1953.” Contemporary European History 24, no. 4 (2015): 493–516.

  • Davies, Robert, Wheatcroft, Stephen, The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933 (Industrialization of Soviet Russia) (Vol 5), Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

  • Dobrenko, Evgeny, Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics, Yale University Press, 2020

  • Edelman, Robert. Spartak Moscow : A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.

  • Eden, Jeff, God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War, Oxford University Press, 2021 

  • Edmunds, Neil, ed. Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin : The Baton and Sickle. Richmond: Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.

  • Erdozain, Dominic, The Dangerous God: Christianity and the Soviet Experiment, Northern Illinois University Press, 2017

  • Filtzer, Donald, Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System after World War II, Cambridge University Press, 2002

  • Filtzer, Donald et al, A Dream Deferred: New Studies in Russian and Soviet Labour History, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2008

  • Filtzer, Donald, The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943-1953, Cambridge University Press, 2010

  • Fitzpatrick, Sheila. "Culture and Politics under Stalin: A Reappraisal." Slavic Review 35, no. 2 (1976): 211-31. 

  • Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934, Cambridge University Press, 1979

  • Fitzpatrick, Sheila. "New Perspectives on Stalinism." The Russian Review 45, no. 4 (1986): 357-73. 

  • Fitzpatrick, Sheila. "War and Society in Soviet Context: Soviet Labor Before, During, and after World War II." International Labor and Working-Class History, no. 35 (1989): 37-52. 

  • Fitzpatrick, Sheila.,The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia, Cornell University Press, 1992

  • Fitzpatrick, Sheila., Stalinism: New Directions (Rewriting Histories), New York: Routledge, 1999

  • Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, Oxford University Press, 2000

  • Froese, Paul, Forced Secularization in Soviet Russia: Why an Atheistic Monopoly Failed, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion , Mar., 2004, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Mar.,2004), pp. 35-50

  • Glass, Becky L., and Margaret K. Stolee. “Family Law in Soviet Russia, 1917-1945.” Journal of Marriage and Family 49, no. 4 (1987): 893–902.

  • Goldman, Wendy, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936, Cambridge University Press,1993

  • Goldman, Wendy, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia, Cambridge University Press, 2002

  • Goldman, Wendy, Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression, Cambridge University Press, 2007

  • Goldman, Wendy, Filtzer, Donald, Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II, Oxford University Press, 2021

  • Gradskova, Yulia, Soviet People with Female Bodies Performing Beauty and Maternity in Soviet Russia in the mid 1930-1960s, Academic dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History at Stockholm University, 2007

  • Groys, Boris, The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond, Princeton University Press, 1992 

  • Heer, David M., and Judith G. Bryden. “Family Allowances and Population Policy in the U. S. S. R.” Journal of Marriage and Family 28, no. 4 (1966): 514–19

  • Holmes, Larry, Stalin's School: Moscow's Model School No. 25, 1931-1937, University of Pittsburgh Press,1999

  • Hunter, Holland. "The Overambitious First Soviet Five-Year Plan." Slavic Review 32, no. 2 (1973): 237-57.

  • Ilic, Melanie (editor), Women in the Stalin era, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

  • Ilic, Melanie, Soviet Women – Everyday Lives, Routledge, 2020

  • Kaganovsky, Lilya. How the Soviet Man Was Unmade : Cultural Fantasy and Male Subjectivity under Stalin. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.

  • Kenez, Peter, A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End (1999), Chapter 5, 'High Stalinism', pp. 103-131

  • Keys, Barbara. “Soviet Sport and Transnational Mass Culture in the 1930s.” Journal of Contemporary History 38, no. 3 (2003): 413–34

  • Keys, Barbara, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s, Harvard University Press, 2006

  • Khlevniuk Oleg V., In Stalin's Shadow:The Career of _SergoOrdzhonikidze, M.E. Sharpe, 1995

  • Krementsov, Nikolai, and Krementsov, Nikolai. Stalinist Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

  • Kuromiya, Hiroaki. "Stalin and His Era." The Historical Journal 50, no. 3 (2007): 711-24. 

  • Martin, Terry, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (Ithaca, 2001).

  • Matthews, Mervyn. “The ‘State Labour Reserves’: An Episode in Soviet Social History.” The Slavonic and East European Review 61, no. 2 (1983): 238–51. 

  • Miller, Jaime, Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion Under Stalin, I. B. Tauris, 2010

  • Neary, Rebecca Balmas. “Mothering Socialist Society: The Wife-Activists’ Movement and the Soviet Culture of Daily Life, 1934-41.” The Russian Review 58, no. 3 (1999): 396–412.

  • Northrop, Douglas. “Languages of Loyalty: Gender, Politics, and Party Supervision in Uzbekistan, 1927-41.” The Russian Review 59, no. 2 (2000): 179–200. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2679752.

  • Payne, Matt, A state of nations: empire and nation-making in the age of Lenin and Stalin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

  • Peris, Daniel, Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless, 1998 

  • Pisch, Anita. The Personality Cult of Stalin in Soviet Posters, 1929-1953: Archetypes, Inventions and Fabrications : Archetypes, Inventions and Fabrications. Canberra: ANU Press, 2016.

  • Pospielovsky , Dimitry, A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Antireligious Policies: Volume 1 of A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice, and the Believer, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1987

  • Ramet, Sabrina Petra, Religious Policy in the Soviet Union, Cambridge University Press, 2005

  • Ryan, Karen L.. Stalin in Russian Satire, 1917-1991. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.

  • Schlögel, Karl, and Schlögel, Karl. Moscow 1937. Oxford: Polity Press, 2012.

  • Smolkin, Victoria, A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism, Princeton University Press, 2018

  • Starr, Frederick, Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union, 1917-1991, Limelight Editions, 1994 

  • Tasar, Eren, Soviet and Muslim. The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia, 1943-1991, Oxford University Press, 2017

  • Thomas, Alun, Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin, I.B. Tauris, 2018

  • Victor, Louis, Sport in the Soviet Union, Pergamon Press, 1980

  • Vihavainen, Timo and Bogdanova , Elena (Eds.) Communism and Consumerism: The Soviet Alternative to the Affluent Society, Brill, 2015

  • Youtube - The First Soviet 5 Year Plan, Megaprojects

  • Youtube - Judaism in the USSR during Stalin, The Cold War

  • Youtube - Homo Sovieticus - Creation of the New Soviet Man, The Cold War

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Helpful Resources

• Primary - Brezhnev, ¨The Brezhnev Doctrine, 1968¨  November 13, 1968

• Primary - Khrushchev ¨'On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences,¨ 25 Februrary 1956

• Primary - Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, & Khrushchev, Serge. Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, Volume 3. The Pennsylvania University Press, 2007.

• Primary - Khrushchev, ¨Speech on Albania¨ 1961

• Primary - various primary sources from the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years

• Primary - Bertaux, Daniel, Rotkirch, Anna, and Thompson, Paul, eds. On Living Through Soviet Russia. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.

• Allen, Robert C. "The Rise and Decline of the Soviet Economy." The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne D'Economique 34, no. 4 (2001): 859-81.

• Attwood, Lynne. The New Soviet Man and Woman: Sex-Role Socialization in the USSR, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1990

• Bacon, Edwin, & M.A. Sandle (eds), Brezhnev Reconsidered, Macmillian 2003

• Bange, Oliver, & Villaume, Poul (eds). The Long D‚tente: Changing Concepts of Security and Cooperation in Europe: 1950s-1980s (Central European University Press, 2011)

• Bracke, Maud, and Maude Bracke. "The 1968 Czechoslovak Crisis: Reconsidering Its History and Politics." Contemporary European History 12, no. 3 (2003): 373-83. 

• Breslauer, George, Khrushchev and Brezhnev as Leaders: Building Authority in Soviet Politics, Routledge, 2016

• Clements, Barbara Evans A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present Indiana University Press, 2012

• Cook, Linda J. "Brezhnev's 'Social Contract' and Gorbachev's Reforms." Soviet Studies 44, no. 1 (1992): 37-56. 

• Du Quenoy, Paul. "The Role of Foreign Affairs in the Fall of Nikita Khrushchev in October 1964." The International History Review 25, no. 2 (2003): 334-56. 

• Engel, Barbara Alpern. “Women in Russia and the Soviet Union.” Signs 12, no. 4 (1987): 781–96.

• Field, Deborah A. “Irreconcilable Differences: Divorce and Conceptions of Private Life in the Khrushchev Era.” The Russian Review 57, no. 4 (1998): 599–613.

• Filtzer, Donald. The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR 1953-1964 (MacMillan, 1993)

• Gaddis, John Lewis, et al (eds) Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945, 1999

• Garthoff, Raymond, Soviet Leaders and Intelligence: Assessing the American Adversary during the Cold War (Georgetown University Press, 2015)

• Gorlizki, Yoram. "Party Revivalism and the Death of Stalin." Slavic Review 54, no. 1 (1995): 1-22. 

• Gorlizki, Yoram. "Too Much Trust: Regional Party Leaders and Local Political Networks under Brezhnev." Slavic Review 69, no. 3 (2010): 676-700. 

• Gregory, Paul, and Barbara Dietz. "Soviet Perceptions of Economic Conditions during the Period of Stagnation: Evidence from Two Diverse Emigrant Surveys." Soviet Studies 43, no. 3 (1991): 535-51. 

• Haslam, Jonathan, Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall (Yale University Press, 2011)

• Ilic, Melanie, et al(ed), Women in the Khrushchev Era (Palgrave, 2004)

• Ilic, Melanie, & Smith, Jeremy, Soviet State and Society Under Nikita Khrushchev, Routledge, 2009 

• Ilic, Melanie, The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

• Kibreab, Gaim, From Ally to Enemy: The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa, A Failed Intervention, The Red Sea Press, 2021

• Kolchevska, Natasha. "Angels in the Home and at Work: Russian Women in the Khrushchev Years." Women's Studies Quarterly 33, no. 3/4 (2005): 114-37. 

• Kozlov, Vladimir et al, Sedition: Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, Yale University Press, 2011

• Mamonova, Tatyana, (ed.) Women & Russia: Feminist Writingsfrom the Soviet Union, Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd, 1989

• MacFadyen, David. Red Stars : Personality and the Soviet Popular Song, 1955-1991. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

• Reid, Susan E. "Khrushchev Modern: Agency and Modernization in the Soviet Home." Cahiers Du Monde Russe 47, no. 1/2 (2006): 227-68. 

• Reid, Susan E. “Cold War in the Kitchen: Gender and the De-Stalinization of Consumer Taste in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev.” Slavic Review 61, no. 2 (2002): 211–52

• Reuveny, Rafael, and Aseem Prakash. "The Afghanistan War and the Breakdown of the Soviet Union." Review of International Studies 25, no. 4 (1999): 693-708. 

• Susanne Schattenberg, Brezhnev The Making of a Statesman I.B. Tauris, 2021

• Schwartz, Charles A. “Economic Crime in the U. S. S. R.: A Comparison of the Khrushchev and Brezhnev Eras.” The International and Comparative Law Quarterly 30, no. 2 (1981): 281–96.

• Skomp, Elizabeth ¨The Literature of Everyday Life and Popu­lar Representations of Motherhood in Brezhnev’s Time¨ in Everyday Life in Russia : Past and Present. Chatterjee, Choi, Ransel, David L., Cavender, Mary, and Petrone, Karen, eds.(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2015.)

• Smith, Jeremy, Ilic,Melanie (eds), Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953-64, Routledge, 2011

• Smith, Jeremy. "The Battle for Language: Opposition to Khrushchev’s Education Reform in the Soviet Republics, 1958–59." Slavic Review 76, no. 4 (2017): 983-1002.

• Suri, Jeremi. "The Promise and Failure of 'Developed Socialism': The Soviet 'Thaw' and the Crucible of the Prague Spring, 1964-1972." Contemporary European History 15, no. 2 (2006): 133-58. 

• Tedin, Kent L., and Oi-Kuan Fiona Yap. “The Gender Factor in Soviet Mass Politics: Survey Evidence from Greater Moscow.” Political Research Quarterly 46, no. 1 (1993): 179–211

• Tompson, William J. "The Fall of Nikita Khrushchev." Soviet Studies 43, no. 6 (1991): 1101-121. 

• Tompson, W. J. “Khrushchev and Gorbachev as Reformers: A Comparison.” British Journal of Political Science 23, no. 1 (1993): 77–105.

• Tompson, William J.. The Soviet Union under Brezhnev. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2003

• Wegren, S.K. "The Rise, Fall, and Transformation of the Rural Social Contract in Russia." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 36, no. 1 (2003): 1-27. 

• Westad, Odd Arne. "Prelude to Invasion: The Soviet Union and the Afghan Communists, 1978-1979." The International History Review 16, no. 1 (1994): 49-69. 

• Zagoria, Donald, Sino-Soviet Conflict, 1956-1961 (Princeton University Press, 2015)

• Zubok, Vladislav &Pleshakov, Constantine. Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev, Harvard University Press,1996

• Youtube - Death of Stalin, The Cold War

• Youtube - How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People, The Cold War

• Youtube - Khrushchev's Virgin Lands Campaign & Food Security in the USSR, The Cold War

• Youtube - Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform? The Cold War

• Youtube - Novocherkassk Massacre 1962 - Soviet Army vs People, The Cold War

• Youtube - Gulag Uprisings - Norilsk, Vorkuta, Kengir Rebellions in the USSR, The Cold War

• Youtube - How Khrushchev Housed Everyone, The Cold War

Helpful Resources

• Primary - Gorbachev, Mikhail, Memoirs New York: Doubleday, 1996\

• Primary -  Gorbachev, Mikhail, Archie. Brown, Mikhail. Gorbachev, Zdenek Mlynar, and George. Shriver. Conversations with Gorbachev : On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism. New York,: Columbia University Press,, 2003.

• Primary - Law on Cooperatives 1988

• Primary - New Union Treaty, 1991

• Primary - Bertaux, Daniel, Rotkirch, Anna, and Thompson, Paul, eds. On Living Through Soviet Russia. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.

• Breslauer, George W. Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

• Brown, Archie. The Gorbachev Factor Archie Brown. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996.

• Brown, Archie. Chapter 9 & 10 in Seven Years That Changed the World : Perestroika in Perspective  Oxford, [England] ;: Oxford University Press, 2007.

• Desai, Padma. Perestroika in Perspective : The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform - Updated Edition Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,, 2014.

• Deudney, Daniel, and G. John Ikenberry. "Soviet Reform and the End of the Cold War: Explaining Large-Scale Historical Change." <i>Review of International Studies</i> 17, no. 3 (1991): 225-50. 

• Gaddis, John Lewis vs. Deudney & Ikenberry, "Did President Reagan Win the Cold War" 1992 

• Greenburg, Jon, "Ronald Reagan's son says his father got the Saudis to pump more oil to undercut USSR, "Politifact, 13 March 2014

• Hansen, Philip The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR 1945 - 1991 Taylor & Francis, 2014

• Knight, Amy. "The KGB, Perestroika, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union." <i>Journal of Cold War Studies</i> 5, no. 1 (2003): 67-93. 

• Kotkin, Stephen, Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000: Soviet Collapse Since 1970, Oxford University Press, 2003

• Lane, David. Soviet Society under Perestroika. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 1992.

• Miller, Chris. “Gorbachev’s Agriculture Agenda: Decollectivization and the Politics of Perestroika.” Kritika (Bloomington, Ind.) 17, no. 1 (2016): 95–118.

• Molyneux, Maxine. “The ‘Women Question’ in the Age of Perestroika.” Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, no. 10 (1991): 89–108.

• Koulinka, Natalia. Soviet Miners’ Strikes, Thirty Years Later: What Miners Demanded in 1989 and 1991, Part I - NYU Jordan Center. [online] NYU Jordan Center, 2020.

• Pei, Minxin, From Reform to Revolution : The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998

• Reynolds, Douglas B. "Soviet Economic Decline: Did an oil crisis cause the transition in the Soviet Union?" The Journal of Energy and Development 24, no. 1 (1998): 65-82.

• Savranskaya, Svetlana et al, Masterpieces of History: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989,  Central European University Press, 2010

• van Dijk, Ruud et al, Encyclopedia Of The Cold War, Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group, 2008

• Zubok, Vladislav, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, Yale University Press, 2021

• Video Series - Curtis, Adam, Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone, BBC, 2022 (Note: You will need a VPN for Britain)

• Youtube -  Interview with Chris Miller The Reasons Why the Soviet Union Collapsed – Myths and Realities, Readara

• Youtube - The Dissolution of the USSR, Megaprojects

Helpful Resources

• Primary - Constitution of the Russian Federation, Dec 1993

• Primary - Yeltsin's Resignation Speech, 1999

• Podcast - The Anthill, "Recovery part five – the post-Soviet transition" The Conversation, 2020

• Bahry, Donna. “The New Federalism and the Paradoxes of Regional Sovereignty in Russia.” Comparative Politics 37, no. 2 (2005): 127–46

• Breslauer, George W. Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

• Cashaback, David. “Assessing Asymmetrical Federal Design in the Russian Federation: A Case Study of Language Policy in Tatarstan.” Europe-Asia Studies 60, no. 2 (2008): 249–75.

• Chiodo, Abbigail & Owyang, Michael. "A Case Study of a Currency Crisis: The Russian Default of 1998"  Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 2002, 84 (6): 7–18. 

• Chuman, Mizuki, The Rise and Fall of Power-Sharing Treaties Between Center and Regions in Post-Soviet Russia,2016

• Gorbachev, Mikhail The New Russia Polity Press, 2016

• Huygen, C. “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Boris Yeltsin and the Failure of Shock Therapy”. Constellations, vol. 3, no. 1, Jan. 2012,

• Lapidus, Gail W. “Contested Sovereignty: The Tragedy of Chechnya.” International Security 23, no. 1 (1998): 5–49.

• Leonard, Carol Scott. "3. The Transition Reforms, 1991-2010" in Agrarian Reform in Russia : the Road from Serfdom. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

• “Mass Murder and the Market” The Economist. Jan. 22 2009.

• McFaul, Michael. “Yeltsin’s Legacy.” The Wilson Quarterly (1976-) 24, no. 2 (2000): 42–58. 

• Medvedev, Roy. Post-Soviet Russia : A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era, Columbia University Press, 2000.

• Miller, Chris, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR, The University of North Carolina Press, 2016

• Pain, Emil. “From the First Chechen War Towards the Second.” The Brown Journal of World Affairs 8, no. 1 (2001): 7–19.

• Pepita Ould-Ahmed. “Barter Hysteresis in Post-Soviet Russia: An Institutional and Post Keynesian Perspective.” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 26, no. 1 (2003): 95–116. 

• Stiglitz, Joseph, The ruin of Russia, The Guardian, 9 April 2003

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• Zubok, Vladislav, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2007

• Video - Shapiro, Ian, Lecture 2: From Soviet Communism to Russian Gangster Capitalism, Yale Courses, 2019

• Video Series - Curtis, Adam, Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone, BBC, 2022 (Note: You will need a VPN for Britain)